The Arizona sentinel., 1887-07-23
HOME AND FARM.

Soap suds is splendid fertilizer for towering plants.
 The best material for fattening fowls is sweet potatoes and corn meal.
 A good dressing of manure, an exchange says, is what most land in- tested with sorrel needs.
 Vinegar in the rinsing water of pink or green calicoes brightens, and soda answers the same purpose for blue or purple.
 Keeping food before the fowls con. tinually removes all inducement fo1 them to scratch. They should be so fed as 10 be compeled to work.
 To educate is to fix moral prin- ciples, and the work of a farmer SC conducted as to secure to him neat and comfortable home is Christianiz- ing. .-Southerra Planter.
 T have saved many bad cases ot bloat in cattle by grasping the tongue with the hand and pulling it forward, thus allowing the gas from the stom- ach to escape. -Creston GGzette.
 Boards of various sizes should be kept in convenient places, one for bread, one for meat another for cut ting and two or three smaller ones on which to stand pots and kettles.
 -ChGmsberS' Journal says joint of meat may be kept many days by wrap, ping it loosely in fine cloth wrung out of vinegar and hanging in draft of air. If the weather is very warm the cloth should be moistened twice or even thrice day.
 It is a common practice in France to coat the beams. the joists and the under side of the flooring of buildings with thick coating of lime-wash as a safeguard against fire. It is pre- ventive of prime ignition, although it will not check fire when once under headway.-Pa6gic Opinion.
 An excellent egg-producing food is one part corn meal, two parts bran, two parts ground oats, one part ground meat and one part middlings, to which may be added small pro- portion of bone meal and salt; scald it and feed early in the morning.
 Stuffed Eggs: Hard-boiled eggs are peeled and cut in halves. Then remove the yelk. fill each end and join again. part of which is mixed with rich force meat. Now roll them in raw beaten egg and cracker dust and fry light brown. Serve with a rich gravy poured over. Chicago Herald.
 The oat is splendid food for young animals because, compared with corn, straw, etc., it is rich in muscle and bone-forming elements; and thls also makes it a splendid food for work animals, during the summer months as it is heating food. It will pay to make the grain ration of oats in the morning and at noon.-St. Louis RepublicGn.
 Marble Cake-light part: Two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, q half-cup of sweet milk, whites of four eggs, two and one-half teaspoons of baking powder, two cups of flour. Dark parL-One cup of brown sugar, a half cup of molasses, one cup of but ter, one-fourth of a cup of sour milk, half a teaspoon of soda, yelks of four eggs, flour to thicken and flavOr.-EG- change
 In case of poisoning the simple rule is to get the poison out of the stomach as soon as possible. Mustard and salt act promptly as emetics, and they are always at hand. Stir table spoonful in glass of water, and let the person swallow it quickly. If it loes not cause vomiting in five min 1tes, repeat the dose. After vomiting give the whites of two or three eggs md send for the doctor. Boston Budget.
 Ginger Snaps. s.-One cup sugar. one cup butter, one tablespoon ginger, one teaspoon soda dissolved in Q little water and as much four as can be stirred in. Pinch off pieces as large as | good-sized marble, roll in the hands, iatten slightly and place in the tin, eaving room for them to spread. Bake n a moderate oven and watch closely, | IS they burn easily. Leave in the tin lntil cool enough to snap.-LisdianGp- | ,J;o